Tuesday, January 29, 2013

It's that time of year. High school seniors have been applying for scholarships and loans to take that next step that is practically assumed should be taken. The expectation that a student who wants to have any kind of future will transition to college from high school is as ordinary as the assumption he would transition to high school upon completion of junior high. Unfortunately, this assumption has become so commonplace in our culture that parents and students alike are regularly failing to count the cost ahead of time.